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# Lead Technical Architect

- **Company:** Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- **Location:** Northampton, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Network Architecture, Office365, Togaf, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/42312332/

## About the Role

secure, complex infrastructure and network solutions that align with business and security objectives, and be skilled at incorporating business continuity, disaster recovery and resilience solutions. When it comes to qualifications you should have a degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Information Technology, possess professional level certifications, and hold or be willing to work towards a qualification such as TOGAF or ITIL.Capable of translating business and security requirements into secure, efficient and cost-effective designs, you should also have experience of using the TOGAF framework to review and assure complex solutions and produce concise and high quality high and low-level designs.Your knowledge of Azure, M365 and AWS platforms will allow you to architect and govern secure, scalable infrastructures across private, public and hybrid platforms, and you should also have good knowledge of NCSC, GDS and UK Government security frameworks

## Description

stage of our exciting journey.Providing innovation to government partnersDelivering best-in-class solutionsWorking at the cutting-edge of technologyIt all mattersUse all your specialist technical skills as you help to protect the UKs interestsWhen you join us in this new role, youll have the vital task of delivering infrastructure and network architecture across a range of domains, working on services including automation, monitoring, security and identity management. Working within the Chief Technical Officers Office, the role plays a key part in coordinating resources to support project delivery and operational teams, contributing to governance, technical and operational activities, and helping to shape and manage enterprise architecture across FCDO Services. You'll also develop robust, secure and cost-effective technical designs that align with our strategic objectives and enterprise architecture, provide expert guidance and technical leadership within the Architecture and Delivery
teams, and ensure the solutions delivered are scalable, resilient, and meet business and user needs.Youll also take on a broad range of responsibilities, including contributing to the Technical Design Authority by reviewing infrastructure and network proposals and influencing the organisations strategic direction for infrastructure and networking. Other aspects of the role include developing technical roadmaps aligned with technological trends and organisational objectives, maintaining accurate architecture documentation, evaluating emerging technologies, establishing infrastructure and network architecture standards that drive quality, managing a team of technical architects, providing expert guidance to operational teams, mentoring less experienced colleagues, and contributing to design and delivery forums.Develop your career as you help to keep the country safe and secureTo be a success in this busy, fast-paced role you should have well developed, experience of delivering


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